Africa

Region: Africa

Africa:

Projects
106
Resources
157
Stories
306
Feature
31st March 2017
Climate change and gender: Are we risking perverse gender outcomes? Gavin Quibell and Lene Lundsgaard argue that delivering more climate-resilient infrastructure must be accompanied by the protection and enhancement of women's existing roles and autonomy in society.
Completed
Project
Completed
Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project is designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, by offering technical support to the Government of Kenya to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.

Resource
27th March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events Raising Risk Awareness (RRA) brings together scientists, vulnerability experts and knowledge brokers to assess the role of climate change in extreme weather events. This presentation explains the process behind attribution science and provides information on the RRA initiative.
Resource
27th March 2017
Kenya's drought analysis In February 2017, Kenya’s President declared a national emergency due to the extreme effects of the 2016/2017 drought. Here, we share a presentation from the Kenya Meteorological Department, which provides an analysis of Kenya's drought.
Resource
23rd March 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events (Swahili version) Raising Risk Awareness presents this Swahili infographic which sets out why attributing extreme weather events is critical and how the process works, towards helping decision-makers and the public to prioritise adaptation solutions and reduce vulnerability.
Feature
13th March 2017
Financing climate resilient development - a call to action Climate and water expert Gavin Quibell believes there are increasing opportunities to finance both the social and economic components of climate resilience.
Resource
8th March 2017
Film : Climate change – Remapping Uganda’s future This video accompanies the report, Economic Assessment of the Impacts of Climate Change in Uganda, and shows how Uganda is already experiencing the impacts of climate variability and associated economic losses.
Event
3rd March 2017
What you always wanted to know about central and southern Africa's climate A beginner’s briefing followed by an opportunity for questions and answers with the presenter, Dr Neil Hart of the Future Climate for Africa programme. Watch the recording of this popular webinar and please share widely.
Feature
28th February 2017
Sharing knowledge on Ethiopia's extreme weather attribution Dr Abiy Zegeye of Addis Ababa University discusses his experience of working with Raising Risk Awareness, and his take-home messages regarding Ethiopia's extreme weather attribution.
Resource
27th February 2017
Making informed decisions to prepare for extreme weather events (Amharic version) Raising Risk Awareness presents this Amharic infographic which sets out why attributing extreme weather events is critical and how the process works, towards helping decision-makers and the public to prioritise adaptation solutions and reduce vulnerability.
News
23rd February 2017
New resource kit for communicating on climate change attribution A new communication toolkit aims to help journalists and communicators report on the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events in several countries of East Africa and South Asia.
Resource
22nd February 2017
POLICY BRIEF: Kenya: A green growth utopia? With its national long-term development blueprint, the Kenyan state recognises the overall import